Trainer’s notes
Making bilingual books
Purpose
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To develop participants’ skills and confidence in making bilingual books.
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To draw their attention to important design issues.
Materials
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Bilingual books OHT
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Multilingual materials OHT
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Making bilingual books activity
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Materials development checklist
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Sheets of paper, scissors, pen, pencils
Instructions
This activity will work best if participants have already completed the Basic
Books topic.
Display Bilingual books OHT and explain that this is an example of a bilingual
book made by children.
Now display the Multilingual materials OHT. Ask participants whether they
agree with the observations on the OHT and to express any reservations that
they may have.
Distribute Making bilingual books activity, paper, scissors and writing
materials.
Ask participants to translate an existing story – perhaps one that they
produced in the Basic books activity – into the mother tongue and then
produce a bilingual story using one of the formats in the handout.
When this part of the activity is finished, distribute the Materials development
checklist. Ask participants to critique their own attempts, making reference to
the checklist.
When taking feedback, pay particular attention to the language issues
highlighted in the checklist.